Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.
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This stuff stings man; these are the last words spoken by Rodrigo Hernandez, executed by lethal injection in Texas last Thursday. This is the second execution to take place in the United States this year, amid continuing controversy over lethal injection protocols, drugs and administration.
The lethal injection execution protocol in the US consists of a cocktail of three drugs: sodium thiopental supposedly anaesthetizes the victim, before pancuronium bromide paralyses the muscles and potassium chloride stops the heart.
Hernandez’s statement serves to further dispel the myth that there is such thing as a painless execution by lethal injection, a myth already severely discredited after ...
on 01 February 2012
An Islamabad-based human rights charity has today called on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops carrying out drone strikes in its country.
In a letter to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari, the Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR) demands that the Pakistani government formally take up ...
on 31 January 2012
By Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 31/01/2012
on 11 January 2012
Watch former Guantánamo Bay prisoners speak about their memories of those still imprisoned there.
Ten years ago, the first Guantánamo prisoners arrived at Camp X-Ray, housed in open-air cages with concrete floors. Here, former detainees and family members speak movingly about their memories of those still imprisoned there, the impact of Guantánamo on their own lives, and their hopes for the future.
One of the residents remembered is the last British man ...
on 07 February 2011
Do your clients have ties to foreign countries? Could they have a claim to foreign nationality? If so, Reprieve can help…
In 2009 Reprieve launched a three-year project, largely funded by the European Commission, called Reprieve’s EC Project. The Project works with capital defense lawyers to help them fulfill their obligations under the ABA Guidelines to “make appropriate efforts ...
Instead of threatening a new system of secret courts, the British government must respond to the unprecedented wrongdoing of the 'War on Terror' years by keeping the legal system open and transparent.
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